Statistics, from describing data to regression
Descriptive statistics, then probability, then the sampling logic that makes confidence intervals and tests mean anything — and p-values taught honestly.
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You get your own copy — yours to change, and to take notes on.
Stage 1 · Describing data
Mean, median, spread, quartiles
5- 1Descriptive Statistics: The Meanyoutube.com
- 2Descriptive Statistics: The medianyoutube.com
- 3Descriptive Statistics: The Modeyoutube.com
- 4What are Quartiles? Percentiles? Deciles?youtube.com
- 5Variance and Standard Deviation: Why divide by n-1?youtube.com
Histograms, boxplots, and reading a chart
4- 6StatQuest: Histograms, Clearly Explainedyoutube.com
- 7The mean, the median, and the mode.youtube.com
- 8Boxplots are Awesome!!!youtube.com
- 9Bar Charts Are Better than Pie Chartsyoutube.com
A free textbook, and a visual one
2- 10OpenIntro Statistics (free PDF)openintro.org
- 11Seeing Theory — probability and statistics, visuallyseeing-theory.brown.edu
Stage 2 · Probability and distributions
The basics of probability
6- 12Basics of Probability: Unions, Intersections, and Complementsyoutube.com
- 13An Introduction to Conditional Probabilityyoutube.com
- 14Independent Events (Basics of Probability: Independence of Two Events)youtube.com
- 15Conditional Probability Example Problemsyoutube.com
- 16What Does Independence Look Like on a Venn Diagram?youtube.com
- 17Are mutually exclusive events independent?youtube.com
Distributions, conditional probability, Bayes
5- 18The Main Ideas behind Probability Distributionsyoutube.com
- 19The Normal Distribution, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 20Conditional Probabilities, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 21Bayes' Theorem, Clearly Explained!!!!youtube.com
- 22The Binomial Distribution and Test, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
When you want it written out
2- 23Probability, Statistics and Random Processes — free textbookprobabilitycourse.com
- 24Khan Academy's statistics and probability trackkhanacademy.org
Stage 3 · Sampling, estimation, confidence
Confidence intervals for a mean
5- 25Introduction to Confidence Intervalsyoutube.com
- 26Deriving a Confidence Interval for the Mean (The Rationale Behind the Confidence Interval Formula)youtube.com
- 27Intro to Confidence Intervals for One Mean (Sigma Known)youtube.com
- 28Finding the Appropriate z Value for the Confidence Interval Formula (Using a Table)youtube.com
- 29Confidence Intervals for One Mean: Interpreting the Intervalyoutube.com
Populations, standard error, bootstrapping
4- 30Population and Estimated Parameters, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 31Standard Deviation vs Standard Error, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 32The standard error, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 33Bootstrapping Main Ideas!!!youtube.com
Course notes and a handbook
2- 34STAT 500 Applied Statistics — Penn State course notesonline.stat.psu.edu
- 35NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methodsitl.nist.gov
Stage 4 · Hypothesis tests, honestly
Tests, from the logic up
6- 36An Introduction to Hypothesis Testingyoutube.com
- 37Z Tests for One Mean: Introductionyoutube.com
- 38Z Tests for One Mean: The Rejection Region Approachyoutube.com
- 39Z Tests for One Mean: The p-valueyoutube.com
- 40Z Tests for One Mean: An Exampleyoutube.com
- 41One-Sided Test or Two-Sided Test?youtube.com
p-values, power, and p-hacking
5- 42Hypothesis Testing and The Null Hypothesis, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 43Alternative Hypotheses: Main Ideas!!!youtube.com
- 44p-values: What they are and how to interpret themyoutube.com
- 45p-hacking: What it is and how to avoid it!youtube.com
- 46Statistical Power, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
Two more free books
2- 47OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2eopenstax.org
- 48Think Stats — statistics with Pythongreenteapress.com
Stage 5 · Regression
Simple linear regression, properly
5- 49Introduction to Simple Linear Regressionyoutube.com
- 50Simple Linear Regression: The Least Squares Regression Lineyoutube.com
- 51Simple Linear Regression: Interpreting Model Parametersyoutube.com
- 52Simple Linear Regression: Assumptionsyoutube.com
- 53Simple Linear Regression: Checking Assumptions with Residual Plotsyoutube.com
Fitting lines, R-squared, multiple regression
4- 54The Essence of Linear Regression!!!youtube.com
- 55R-squared, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
- 56The Main Ideas of Fitting a Line to Data (The Main Ideas of Least Squares and Linear Regression.)youtube.com
- 57Linear Regression, Clearly Explained!!!youtube.com
The regression series
4Doing it on real data
2- 62Statistical Inference via Data Science (ModernDive)moderndive.com
- 63R for Data Sciencer4ds.hadley.nz
The courses these videos come from
8- 64StatQuest with Josh Starmer: Statistics Fundamentals (62 videos)youtube.com
- 65jbstatistics: Basics of Probability (7 videos)youtube.com
- 66jbstatistics: Hypothesis Testing (16 videos)youtube.com
- 67jbstatistics: Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean (10 videos)youtube.com
- 68jbstatistics: Simple Linear Regression (12 videos)youtube.com
- 69zedstatistics: Descriptive Statistics (13 videos) (13 videos)youtube.com
- 70zedstatistics: Regression series (10 videos) (11 videos)youtube.com
- 71StatQuest with Josh Starmer: Linear Regression and Linear Models (9 videos)youtube.com
How to use this path
1- 72The stage most people skip